2017-11-28 0:20 GMT+01:00 <bytevolc...@safe-mail.net>:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:52:19 -0500
> Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
>> I am very sorry that I allowed symbolic link support into Fossil in
>> the first place. (Symbolic link support was neither designed nor
>> written by me - it is contributed code.) I would really like to get
>> rid of symbolic link support. Symbolic links seem out-of-place in a
>> version control system. As implemented, symbolic links are a point of
>> confusion which (as far as I can see) adds no useful capabilities.
>
> Are you referring to symlinks inside a working directory, or Fossil's
> ability to "follow" them? If so have a survey of users, or a
> disabled-by-default policy to see if any users need it.
This patch has no relation to fossil's symlink support, it's just part
of the code to find a suitable temporary directory to write some
intermediate file. It's unfortunate it's that complicated, but useful
because sometimes the working directory or the current directory
is read-only, That's what this code is about.
I sometimes use symlink support in fossil, but it shouldn't be fancy
at all. When committing a symlink, someone else checking it out
should get the same symlink. This - generally - only makes sense
when the symlink is relative and points to somewhere else in
the working directory. Otherwise - indeed - it doesn't make sense.
This is the way that - for example - Subversion handles symlinks,
it would be a loss to remove it from fossil. It's just like the 'x'
(executable) flag: unfortunate that Windows doesn't handle it the way
UNIX does, that's the reason why fossil has to do tricky things ....
That said, symlinks are actually a UNIX-only feature: I don't
mind that - on Windows - symlinks check-out as being a file with
the link path as content (that's what Subversion does as well ...)
Regards,
Jan Nijtmans
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